The Irish standard., 1887-07-02

detected and driven home by the grand
old Radical, David Hume, and the
pages of "Hansard" bear witness to the
extent of the plot and to its infamous
character. The society was suppressed
by unanimous vote of the House OF
Commons on the motion of Lord John
Russell, and the Duke Of Cumberland
and his fellow.conspirators would
doubtless have paid the penalty of their
treason but for the influence of the
King and the kinship of the leader to
the royal house. In later years it was
resuscitated, and lives once more for
the sole object of perpetuating the mis-
erable feuds that have SO long dis
graced the North of Ireland, and which
in late years have broken out in New
York and other parts of the United
States as we'll as in Canada. The
Americans made short work of the
Orange parade in 1872. Under the Wig
orous action of Gov. Hoffman, the ridi-
culous displays were brought to ludi-
crous end and the attempt to import into
the New World the silly faction fights
of the Old has not since been repeated.
Pathologists have deduced from care
full observation of certain virulent dis
eases the theory, that when they are
transmitted from one race to another
the effects appear in more aggravated
form. After recent events in Belfast
it would be hazardous to assert that the
action of the virus as displayed at King
ston and Hamilton is an aggravation of
the disease, but it shows at least that
the yiru1ence of the poison has not
abated. In the light of day the Orange
men are reproducing in America the
most discreditable episodes Of the Pro
testant ascendancy period Of Irish his
tory. There is the less excuse for this,
because. in Ireland, bigotry and fanati-
cism have their natural roots, while in
the United States and Canada they are
imported plants, alien alike to the soil
and to the principles on which liberty
has thriven in the free air Of the Re
public and the Confederacv. 1t is not
possible that the people Of Canada, who
through their Parliament have shown
recently on the question of Home Rule
how much they are in advance of the
classes even of the masses-of the
mother country, will tolerate a repeti-
tion of such brutal infringements of the
freedom of speech and the duties OF
hospitality as have just been committed,
on the mandate of a small body Of
bigots who acknowledge no law but
that of their own will. and who are
ready, at every opportcnity, to fling
over alike the loyalty they are never
tired of proclaiming, and the higher
loyalty to the principles of toleration
and liberty. DR.. Ferrar, a Grand Chap
lain of the order, declared, in 1859, 'be-
fore God,'' that the Orangemen would
die sword in hand rather than accept
Mr.. Gladstone's church disestablish-
ment bill; and that if the Queen gave
her assent to it they would "kick her
crown into the Boyne." Nonsense Of
this sort is the bumkum on which the
Orange mind is fed. but, in the end,
these zealots submit to circumstances
with the docility of lambs. 1t IS only
in cowardly attacks, such as those upon
Mr.. O'Brien at Kingston and Hamil-
ton, that the Orange courage emerges.
An unarmed man, without police es.
cort, assailed in the streets Of a strange
town in the darkness. is an easy object
on which to spend their fury. The lisk
is small, and the bravo and the bully
never fail, whether in Ulster or Canada,
to seize the opportunity when it offers.
The citizens of our great Western de-
pendency, we may be assured, will not
submit to such a foul stigma being per-
manently fixed on the honor and hospi-
tality of the Dominion at the hands of
a clique Of truculent bigots, and we
look with confidence to the authorities
and to Parliament for vigorous efforts
in asserting the dignity of the law, and
bringing the Orange rufians to justice.
Newspaper.
BRIGHT THOUGHTS.
When you bury an old animosity
never mind 8 tombstone.